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- I thought this might be of interest to Executor enthusiasts.
-
- You can pick up the thread on any of the half-dozen groups from the
- Newsgroups line below :-).
-
- - Pat
-
- ------- Start of forwarded message -------
- From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt)
- Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
- Message-ID: <4lg8na$isk@news.missouri.edu>
-
- Michael Dillon (michael@memra.com) wrote:
- : In article <NELSON.96Apr17100753@ns.crynwr.com>,
- : Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote:
-
- : >Exactly. I was bashing Win95 to a friend who is a music teacher, and
- : >who bought a Win95 box. She said, in a somewhat frustrated tone of
- : >voice, "Well what alternative do we have??" as if there WAS none.
-
- : Macintosh is the alternative. If people just want an easy to use box
- : to do WP, spreadsheet and play a few games then nothing is better than
- : a Mac. Of course, you can run a lot of that Mac software (including
- : Claris Works) on a Linux box with Executor from http://www.ardi.com
-
- : IMHO, the Linux/Executor combo is far more likely to bear fruit in the
- : near future than Linux/WINE. Executor already supports a wide range of
- : Macintosh applications and if more people would use it, the company would
- : have the support needed to get full System 7 compatibility finished.
-
- Wow! Whiplash here! Make Linux take on the *MacOS* instead of
- *Windows*. Hmmm... interesting... :)
-
- So what are the odds that a) System 7 support can be made string enough
- that I can run MS Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 for the Macintosh on my Linux
- box and b) that this powerful Executor can be packaged free with Linux
- distributions?
-
- While a) is going to be difficult enough, I think b) is impossible.
- Executor is ShareWare at the moment. Are they just going to up and
- *give* it to us?
-
- : Anyone know if Caldera has talked to ARDI about integrating their product
- : with CND? Has anyone thought of integrating Executor with netatalk?
- : Since the Macintosh platform has far better quality applications than Windows
- : I think this is a far better direction to be heading.
-
- Then use Executor to control AppleShare exports and printing. Not bad...
-
- : >THAT is why we must win the desktop. I don't mind if Microsoft wins
- : >because people have evaluated Win95 against Linux and make a conscious
- : >choice to use it. But I want them to know that they have a choice,
- : >and to make it.
-
- : In order to have a choice that runs Windows apps we must contend with a
- : horrendously hacked together patchwork system full of undocumented
- : wierdness. This is not an easy thing to do and is probably why WINE
- : is so far from usability and why WABI is only compatible with a few of
- : the more popular applications. Even OS/2's support for Windows isn't
- : perfect and the WinOS2 developpers had access to the complete Windows
- : source code!
-
- Yes. Unfortunately, the problem isn't just the Windows code, but the
- application code. Lots of applications for Windows pull all kind of
- weird tricks while they're running, and thus throw emulators for a loop.
-
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